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Re: Emacs for the PC?

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From: Rui M. Pereira
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:07
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nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
| In article <1992Dec16.152100.15808@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs202144@umbc8.umbc.edu writes:
| 
|    
|    I own and use an IBM 486/33. I was told there is an edition of
|    Emacs that will work on my machine. Can anyone advice me where to
|    obtain a copy of this since Emacs is my favorite text editor.
| 
| You might be happy with Freemacs.  It's on simtel20.army.mil, in
| pd1:<msdos.freemacs>.
| 

Mutt Editor 2 is a better emacs-like editor than Freemacs:  no 64k
file limit, elisp-like macro/language ...

It is also avaible at Simtel20 under pd:<msdos.editor>.
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